Sooooo, yeah . . . I've just been talking to Scott. He was at Wrestling Nationals till last night so he wasn't able to be at call-backs. Well, he was supposed to have his callback tonight.
Brandon never showed up.
Scott went back to his room after about an hour and a half and found he got an e-mail from Doc saying that he needn't bother showing up for his callback because Brandon "wasn't going to be able to use him in the show". Later Scott got an e-mail from Brandon himself earlier, apologizing himself and saying that at call-backs, all the roles just "fell into place, except for Rapunzel", which he gave to Katrina. Katrina wasn't at call-backs either, but she's still officially cast as Rapunzel . . . Sooooo, yeah, apperantly the whole make-up call-backs for Katrina and Scott was a sham, and Brandon isn't even giving Scott the chance to see what he can do. I really don't agree with that. I think it's wrong, and immoral, and it shows that Brandon . . . I don't know . . . It just makes me suspicious. And the fact that in the e-mail Brandon says that he "had to turn away many impressive people" . . .
Am I one of the impressive people he had to turn away? I don't think I should be. I mean, I feel that I had the best audition I have ever had. If I ever deserve a lead role, it's for this show . . . but then I look back at last year and how I thought I did amazingly at call-backs, and I didn't get the role . . . I got a minor featured role . . . In Grease NO ONE expected the cast with the sole exception of Mara as Sandy . . . I mean, the show worked out well . . . for the most part . . . but it wasn't what anyone thought it would be. To this day I think that it would've been better had certain people been cast differently . . . And no, I'm not talking about myself. I wasn't in any state of mental health to deal with a lead role, I'm talking about other people.
But anyway, due to Brandon's short, but certain track record of out-of-the-blue casting . . . and that he's had the roles cast since call-backs themselves . . . and has had to cut "impressive people" from the show . . . I'm scared as hell that I'm not going to be in it. I'm scared as hell that I'm going to get stuck as Cinderella's father if I AM cast in it. It would just figure, ya know? I just want to be in this show too bad and it would be too perfect for me to actually get what I want.
I just don't know. And it's not like I'm only worried for myself either. I'm pissed about what Brandon and Doc did to Scott. That was rather unprofessional in my opinion. And Tabby wasn't even called-back. If all the parts fell into place . . . is she going to be in it? But Katrina wasn't there either, so does that mean he already knows what he wants Tabby to be? And Joe? Is he going to get a good part? Probably. He got one of the larger roles in Grease. And I'm worried about other people too. There are so many people who would be good at certain roles that it really can go anyway. And if Brandon doubles up roles on the actors like they do in the broadway video, that's even less people that get to be in the show . . . I just don't know.
I'm either going to be very, very happy tomorrow, or very, very upset . . . I'm really not sure I want to know . . .
Eric 3/02/2004 02:28:00 AM
